How big a market is Security Analytics? If you ask our guest,
Gartner Research VP Dr. Anton Chuvakin you'll hear that there
actually is no specific or defined market called Security
Analytics. He says that while there are technology providers
offering products or services so labeled they all do somewhat
different things in different ways.

There are vendors
who look at packets, others that look at logs or roles and those
that look at malware among other things and they all carry a label
of analytics but according to Dr. Chuvakin the fact that all of the
vendors do different things indicates that there is no market that
you can just go to and buy a security analytics
product.

Organizations
need to self define what they want to analyze and then assemble the
required pieces and perhaps integrate with a Security Information
and Event Management (SIEM) system, which is in some cases is
essential for aspects of security analytics to work.

In
any case, the buy versus build discussion becomes much more than
binary. Dr. Chuvakin explores this largely undefined territory with
Security Current's Vic Wheatman.

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